Dean

Lonnie

T.

Brown

Jr.

Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. is the Kean Family Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law. He became Temple Law’s dean in the fall of 2026, after spending four years as dean of the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law, Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law, and Haslam Family Professor. Before that, Dean Brown spent 20 years at the University of Georgia School of Law where he was the A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence. His scholarship and teaching focus on lawyering, legal ethics, and judicial ethics. He is the author of the definitive biography of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark—Defending the Public’s Enemy: The Life and Legacy of Ramsey Clark (Stanford University Press)—and co-author of Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach (West Academic).  

Earlier in his career, Dean Brown was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and served as a visiting assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. In addition, he taught at Emory University as an adjunct professor. Before entering academia, he served as a judicial clerk for Judge William C. O’Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and then practiced law as an associate and a partner at Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta, Georgia.